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Discord Jones has faced demons, a curse-throwing dark elf, and even a god. Solving a series of murders in the Barrows should be a breeze—even if the case does mean she has to work with vampires. When the mystery turns personal, Discord is forced not only to face a monster from her past, but also some of her biggest fears. The clock is ticking….

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On New Year's Eve 2000, the stroke of midnight returned magic, both light and dark, to the world.Discordia Jones missed it. Struck down at that same instant like a cut-rate Cinderella/Sleeping Beauty mash up, she awakened three years later to a far stranger life, and saddled with psychic abilities.Working as a private investigator for Arcane Solutions only brings on more strangeness.At least there aren't talking mice...

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In this book, while it's good, a bit more of Drummond's inexperience as a writer shows. Partly that's her handling of the relationship issues. Cordi's always seemed emotionally less mature than her age - more age 16 than in her early twenties, and in part, that's attributable to her 3 years in a coma. In this book, however, she seems too much like a high school student, especially around Logan, and Danielle's jealousy. It was all too typical high school romance, as was Cordi's blindness to Logan's attraction to her. It's been obvious since book one. And did Drummond have to make Nick and his family quite so stereotypical? That whole section about Cordi's visit to his family felt contrived and simplistic, and part of a setup to make Logan's clan seem so much better. It's a pity that Drummond is sticking us with that kind of typecasting, right as Cordi's started outgrowing her prejudice about vampires and their relatives. Too many YA books are lazy rehashings of the same old relationship drama between cardboard characters that everyone has read about and no one's actually met. I was really expecting more from Drummond and hope for better from the next book. There's a lot to like about the world Drummond's created - now she just needs to apply that same imagination to her people and their interactions....

This series keeps getting better. I'll try to avoid too many spoilers here. Discord starts with a case from vampires, so we get to see her handle her fear and prejudice. I love how she continues to grow as a person in these books, realizing her shortcomings and trying to move beyond them. We also get to see lots of shifters in the book too, of the wolf and tiger variety. There is movement in her love life too, which is handled in a realistic way that seems true to the characters. I would recommend this series to people who enjoy Kim Harrison, Kelley Armstrong, Chloe Neill, Patricia Briggs, or other Urban Fantasy authors who don't have romance as the central theme in their books.

Once again the author has scored a home run in her Cordi Jones series of supernatural adventures. In "Hook 'em Horns" Texan style, Drummond has created a swashbuckling, action-packed story embellished by an otherworldly, yet "normal" setting that includes shape shifters, gargoyles, witches, vampires, elves and a host of other fanciful characters. However, instead of being seduced by this sometimes outlandish array of beings, the story allows its human protagonists to grapple with very realistic and often confounding relationship issues that are completely recognizable from our own normal lives.

This is the author's third book in the series. Her main character, Discord Jones, remains consistent throughout, yet we also get to see her grow into herself and her abilities and better channel her efforts into more constructive approaches. Still, the element of "rash" is a constant theme, and the reader is left wondering how it is that Cordi can manage to survive the potentially deadly outcomes of her more impulsive decisions. In those instances, "supernatural abilities" would hardly seem sufficient to rescue this girl from her terrifying sense of invulnerability against the demons she encounters in her quest to vanquish evil.

The outcome for the reader, however, is a story that you can't put down and one that leaves you yearning for the next chapter. Hats off to Ms. Drummond for a fascinatingly creative story that at the same time is recognizable as a very human tale of a search for love and reconciliation.

I've been reading these stories back-to-back. I'm definitely hooked on the characters, situations and Cordi in particular. This psychic private investigator with a slew of known abilities, is still learning what else she can do. Not happy about it, she's forced to work for a master vampire to figure out who is killing off council members who support the newer rules to only feed from willing humans. Along the way she learns that some of what she'd believed isn't quite true and her circle of support just keeps getting bigger.

And this story has more personal angles than prior ones when it comes to her family and relationships. It's definitely got an emotional element to it. I was going to say that you've just got to love her parents, but then realized how many other characters I'd want to list along with that remark.

I'm truly enjoying the characters, situations and the world that was built and can't wait to see what happens next. A caring magically kick-butt heroine who keeps putting herself in danger to help others is the best reason to keep coming back. Witches, warlocks, and their familiars, demons, shifters, vampires, elves, gargoyles and demon fighting magical dogs also make the stories interesting.

This series is one you need to block out cover-to-cover time for. I couldn't find more than fifteen minutes of uninterrupted time to myself for months. I finally just resolved to stay up late and walk around groggy the next day.

So anyway, without spoiling anything, I was mildly on Team Nick, although I thought he needed to grow up or have a "trapped in an elevator/cabin/dungeon" moment with Logan at some point so he could relax. I met his brother and went down a point. Then I saw his family's plans and I thought, "Uh, oh, run, Cordi, run!"

Not that her relationships are the focus of the plot. They're like a sub-sub-sub plot. It's an action-based series that's part modern noir/private detective and part sword-and-sorcery in the city-- with a heavy dose of sarcasm from the protagonist. Hence the reason I can't just pick it up and read a chapter a day. It moves fast and you don't want to stop turning pages. I'm so glad so many other people have figured out how fun this series is!